Yes, it’s another FO Friday and I have lots to report on this gorgeous late November morning. First things first, I finished the Vanilla Candy Corn socks.
The socks are not identical, but I rather like them that way. I love how the colors in this Trekking XXL stripe and flow, and I think this colorway looks fabulous in garter rib, don’t you?
Remember this fiber from the Sunset Fibers Roving of the Month Club that I was spinning? I turned it into this lovely 2-ply fingering-weight yarn.
I’m really pleased with how this yarn turned out. There are lots of long sections of solid or nearly solid colors connected with marled sections, and I think the effect is simply spectacular. Linda at Sunset Fibers is a gifted dyer. I’ve spun up three of her colorways so far, and all of them have been beautiful.
Okay, so far we have a pair of finished socks and 4 oz. of 2-ply handspun yarn. But there’s more. Remember the Cotton Candy fiber I was spinning up for the November challenge for the Raverly Spindlers group? The theme for the month, which I picked, is “life is a carnival.” So here’s my finished yarn.
I spun the yarn on my two Golding Ringspindles and my Schacht 1.1. I wanted to make a 3-ply, so I wound the singles off the spindles into a plying ball, then I plied the yarn using my Schacht 2.2.
When I was winding the plying ball, as I neared the end one of my singles snapped. I decided that rather than splicing the ends I would break the other two singles, then wind the remaining yarn into a separate plying ball. The second ball was tiny, so I plied it first. After taking the plied yarn off my niddy-noddy, I decided I had put in too much twist when I plied it, so when I plied the second, large ball, I put in less twist and the finished yarn is more to my liking.
Just in case you hadn’t guessed, the tiny skein in the picture is the over-plied yarn from the tiny plying ball and the large skein above it is the more loosely-plied yarn from the large plying ball. I have no idea what I will use this yarn for, but it will look pretty in my stash. 😀
I was afraid that the colors would turn muddy when I plied the yarn, especially since I was doing a 3-ply. But my fears were unfounded. The yarn remains quite colorful. Life is a carnival!
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Three beautiful FOs! I love those socks. The colors work great with the garter rib. And both spinning projects are lovely. I enjoy seeing how the colors in dyed fiber come together in the yarn. I’m hoping to join in with some of the Spindler group challenges next year.
Thanks, Janet. It’s fun to watch the colors develop during the spinning and plying. And the knitting, too. 🙂
I like those socks. They make me want to eat a bowl of candy corn.
Me, too.
Ohhhh, I LOVE the colourful 2-ply! The blue on is also really, really gorgeous, but the colourful one …. Woah. It reminds me of stained glass – so wonderful. I hope that one day I can do that as well 😉
The socks also look great! I have never knit with Trekking XXL, but these socks make me thing it really IS a yarn worth considering. 😀
Trekking XXL is one of my very favorite sock yarns. It isn’t the softest, although it’s plenty soft, but it wears like iron without pilling and fuzzing. And the colors are wonderful.
Great socks and beautiful fiber!
Thanks.